Stone Tools in the Ancient near East and Egypt : Ground Stone Tools, Rock-Cut Installations and Stone Vessels from Prehistory to Late Antiquity
ISBN: 9781789690613
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Archaeopress
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Subjects: History;

'Stone Tools in the Ancient Near East and Egypt: Ground stone tools, rock-cut installations and stone vessels from Prehistory to Late Antiquity' is about groundstone tools, stone vessels, and devices carved into rock throughout the Near East and Egypt from Prehistory to the late periods. These categories of objects have too often been overlooked by archaeologists, despite their frequent occurrence in the archaeological record. Most importantly, a careful study of these tools reveals crucial insights into ancient societies. From the procuring of raw materials to patterns of use and discard, they provide us with a wealth of information about the activities they were involved in and how these activities were organised. These tools reveal patterns in the trade of both raw materials and finished products, inform us about economic aspects of food production and consumption, cast light on industrial activities, help establish intercultural connections, and offer hints about the relationship between sites and their environment. The aim of this book is to explore all aspects of these ubiquitous tools and to stimulate debate about the new methodologies needed to approach this material.

ANDREA SQUITIERI is a postdoctoral researcher working for the Peshdar Plain Project (based at the Ludwig-Maximilans University of Munich) focusing on the study of the eastern border of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. He obtained his PhD at University College London (UCL) in 2015 with a thesis on 'Stone vessels in the Near East during the Iron Age and the Persian Period', published with Archaeopress. | DAVID EITAM is an archaeologist focussing on the study of stone tools and their implications on the prehistory and history of the ancient Near East, such as discovering the oil industry of the Kingdoms of Israel and Philistine Ekron in the Iron Age period, and the first systematic production of bread by the Natufian approximately 12,500 years ago. He obtained his PhD at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (HUJ) with the thesis 'Late Epipaleolithic rock-cut installations and ground stones in the Southern Levant' partly published on PLOS One.

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